Man who has been deported twice pleads guilty to illegal re-entry

4:44 AM,
Apr. 20, 2013

Written by

Jer?Mykeal McCoy
| The Tennessean

A Latino man who had previously been deported twice pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Nashville to illegally re-entering the United States.

Francisco Arevalo-Lopez, 54, was pulled over in late January by Dickson County police on I-40 for having dark tint on his windows. He was reported by officers to Homeland Security and placed on a detainer.

An immigration detainer is a tool used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other DHS officials to identify potentially deportable individuals who are housed in jails or prisons. It also requests that the state or local jail ...